Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages by Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod

Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages

Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod

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nonfiction business economics history politics
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Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts—and, in repressing it, ended up bu...

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